Under the simple title "Serbian Songs" or "Folk Songs of the Serbs", creations of Serbian folk poetry have found their way into German literature since the beginning of the last century. There was something different: an important translator, the interest of important contemporaries, and the flow of romance, which helped the poems to travel happily. Translated by Stefan Schlotzer. With a comment by Erika Beermann.&#xD;

This study analyzes the artistic theory and practice of the Left Front of the Arts (Levyi front iskusstv - Lef) with a special focus on the journal Lef (1923-1925). Two themes are central to this account: the organizational activities of the Lef group directed toward making Futurism a formative force within the Soviet culture and the artistic proposals published in Lef that had the same goal.